Came here to mention exactly this. It doesn’t sound too crazy, and would really help bring servers and communities to the where the users are and vice versa, with a bunch of extra benefits.
For example, right now !programmerhumor@lemmy.ml and !programmer_humor@programming.dev (and a bunch of others, but there are biggest I think) are basically the same thing, with many posts being posted to both simultaneously. If you subscribe to just one, you might miss half the community, but if you subscribe to both then you see duplicate posts in your feed, and the comments sections are separate causing less interactions and less fun.
I assume that both communities’ mod teams are aware of this issue, so would be happy to make the consolidate the communities into one if given the option, essentially mirroring each other. The nuances of how it all works - especially from a moderation perspective - is tricky but entirely possible to solve.
Came here to mention exactly this. It doesn’t sound too crazy, and would really help bring servers and communities to the where the users are and vice versa, with a bunch of extra benefits.
For example, right now !programmerhumor@lemmy.ml and !programmer_humor@programming.dev (and a bunch of others, but there are biggest I think) are basically the same thing, with many posts being posted to both simultaneously. If you subscribe to just one, you might miss half the community, but if you subscribe to both then you see duplicate posts in your feed, and the comments sections are separate causing less interactions and less fun.
I assume that both communities’ mod teams are aware of this issue, so would be happy to make the consolidate the communities into one if given the option, essentially mirroring each other. The nuances of how it all works - especially from a moderation perspective - is tricky but entirely possible to solve.